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 ## Inverted TopNMetricSpec
 
-Sort dimension values in inverted order, i.e inverts the order of the delegate metric spec. It can be used to sort the values in descending order.
+Sort dimension values in inverted order, i.e inverts the order of the delegate metric spec. It can be used to sort the values in ascending order.
 
 ```json
 "metric": {